By Krysten Hinchee
Leader of the American Railway
Union
Unionized the Pullman
Company
-Strike began because of
wage cuts and fired workers.
-ARU stopped handling
Pullman cars
Criticized the Espionage Act
Speech in Canton, Ohio; 1918
Arrested and sent to prison
26th President
William McKinley assassinated
Meat Inspection Act 1906
Banned preservatives that
contained harmful chemicals.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Banned food and drugs with false
labels from being sold
Bull Moose Party
28th President: (1913-1921)
Democratic Party
Federal Reserve Act
Created Federal Reserve System
Fixed banks from the recession
Federal Trade Commission
Created to monitor businesses
Clayton Antitrust Act
Banned tying agreements and price
discrimination.
Federal Farm Loan Act
Created 12 Federal Land Banks to
provide farmers with long-term loans
at low interest rates
Revenue Act 1913
Zimmermann Telegram
Instructor at Hampton University in
1879
Fought for African American
educational rights instead of political
rights
First Leader of the Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
Gave speech before whites about
African American educational rights
Founded the Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama in 1881
Grandson of Elizabeth
Freeman
Founded the NAACP
National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People
Writer of Souls of Black Folk
1903
Southern Whites
continued to strip African
Americans of their civil
rights.
Concerned with protecting
and exercising voting rights
Established settlement houses
Middle class lived and helped
poor residents, mostly
immigrants
Opened Hull House in Chicago in
1889
Medical care, recreation
programs, English classes, etc.
Suffrage Movement
Women’s right to vote
National Woman Suffrage
Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Illegally casted votes
Anthony and 12 other women
Arrested but not charged
Helped the International Council of
Women
19th Amendment Passed
Women legally allowed to vote
Seneca Falls Convention
First women’s rights convention
Elizabeth C. Stanton
Wanted women to focus more on
voting rights
Spoke about favoring abolitionism
Prudence Crandall
Wendell Phillips
Anarchists
Opposed all forms of
govnment
Shot and killed two
employees of Slater &
Morrill Company
Found guilty and sentenced
to death
Led the United Mine Workers union
Formed the Committee of Industrial
Org.
Set out to organize industrial
unions.
Focused on automobiles and steel.
United States Steel Corp.
recognized the UAW and became
successful.
UAW
United Auto Workers
Most powerful union in the U.S.
Wrote about the Harlem
Renaissance
Became a leading voice of
African American experience in
the U.S.
“Poet of the Laureate of Harlem”
German dictator
Hated Jews
Couldn’t be controlled by anyone
Nazi Party
Largest party in Reichstag by 1932
Nationalistic and anticommunist
Didn’t represent working class
Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)
His own autobiography
Holocaust
Killed Jews
Austrian Anschluss
Wanted to control all Austria and
Czechoslovakia.
Threatened to send troops to
Austria; Hitler had unification.
Appeasement policy
Czechoslovakia
Broke up country- Slovakia and
Czech
Hitler got the Czech land
Italian dictator
Quickly destroyed democracy and
set up dictatorship.
Wanted to bring back the glory of
the Roman Empire
Founded Fascist Party
Believed a nation could be great by
expanding its territory and building
up its military.
Il Duce -“The Leader”
Bringing order to Italy
Prime Minister of Japan
Expanded the war with China
Invaded French Indochina
U.S. imposed a total
embargo on oil and gasoline
exports
Battle of Midway
Turning point for Japan
Emperor of Japan
WW2
Bombed Pearl Harbor
Invasion of China and
Manchuria
Formed the Axis Powers
Bataan attack
Political and military leader of China
Attacked Shanghai and
bombarded Nanjing
Cairo Conference
Roosevelt and Churchill
compromising
President of Taiwan
Made China Allied Power
National Committee of the Communist
Party of China
In Shanghai
Elected one of five commissars of
Central Committee
Built his own army
Guerilla warfare and Mobile warfare
Russian dictator
Yalta Conference
Agreed that the government would
include members of the prewar Polish
government and that free elections would
be help ASAP.
Potsdam Conference
Him and his advisors needed
reparations from Germany
Accepted Truman’s deal of atomic
bomb testing and keeping reparations
limited to keep Soviets weak.
Intensified hatred with Russia and U.S.
Berlin Airlift
Blockaded Berlin; defeated.
Korean War
Supplied weapons
Truman Doctrine
Turned to Turkey and demanded joint
control of the Dardenelles.
Dean Acheson warned Truman to take
action
Senate and Governor of N.Y.
Pearl Harbor attacked
The New Deal
Brought the economy out of the depression
Civilian Conservation Corp.
Hired 250,000 unemployed young men to
work on rural local projects.
Agricultural Adjustment Admin.
Tried to force higher prices for commodities
by paying farmers to take land out of crops and to
cut herds.
National Industrial Recovery Act
Forced industries to come up with codes that
established rules of operation within specific
industries, such as minimum prices and
production restrictions.
Second New Deal
Works Progress Admin.
Set up a national relief agency that employed
two million family heads
Social Security Act
Promised economic security for the elderly,
the poor and the sick
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
Federal rights of workers to organize unions,
to engage in collective bargaining and to take part
in strikes
Britain prime minister
Destroyers for Bases
Asked Roosevelt to transfer old
destroyers to Britain, helping them.
Atlantic Charter
Met with Roosevelt
Agreed on postwar world of
democracy, nonaggression, free
trade, economic advancement, and
freedom of seas.
Invasion of Morocco and Algeria
Casablanca Conference
Met with Roosevelt and agreed to
step up the bombing of Germany
Yalta Conference
Agreed with FDR to recognize the
Polish government set up by Soviets.
Dividing Germany
4 zones controlled by France,
G.Britain, U.S., and Soviets.
33rd President of U.S.
Manhattan Project
testing of first atomic bomb
Potsdam Conference
Told Stalin about bomb testing
Truman Doctrine
Containment policy
Marshall Plan
Postwar aid to Germany to help
rebuild economy
National Security Act 1947
Created Air Force
CIA and the National Security
Council
Department of War, Defense, and
Navy
Fair Deal
New Deal and Truman’s Acts put
together
Taft-Hartley Act
Labor Unions
Berlin Airlift
Sent supplies in planes to blockade
until Soviets surrendered
Philippines
Set up reconcentration camps to
separate guerrillas from civilians
Wanted to invade and retake
Philippines
Fall of Philippines
Wanted to retreat the Bataan Peninsula
Bataan Death March
Invasion of Guadalcanal
August 1942-1944
Captured enough islands to surround
main Japanese base.
Captured base, Hollandia.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Largest naval battle
First kamikaze attack
Mission: introduce democracy to Japan
and keep them from threatening war.
Sent troops to Korea Peninsula
Fired by Truman
Lawyer and diplomat of
Roosevelt’s administration.
Whittaker Chambers claimed
Hiss gave him secret
documents from the State
Department.
Hiss denied it
Chambers printed
documents.
Hiss convicted of perjury
Sent information to Soviet Union
in 1950
Charged with heading a Soviet
spy ring
Executed in June 1953
Accused M. La Follette, Jr. of being
“communistically inclined.”
Became Senator of U.S.
Thought Communists were a danger
to both at home and abroad.
Accused a wide number of former
famous people of disloyalty.
McCarren Act
Communists couldn’t get
passports to travel abroad.
McCarthyism
Arresting disloyalty members
Thought spies were in U.S. Army
T.V. investigations; very cruel.
Started loosing support of people
Senate passed a censure vote on
him.
Gandhi influenced King on
nonviolent movements.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
arrested for not giving their seat up
to white.
Albany Movement
Birmingham Campaign
Wanted to end city’s segregated
civil and discriminatory economic
policies
Series of “sit-ins”
March on Washington
King gave “I Have A Dream”
speech.
Whites and blacks there
Powerful and charismatic speaker
Nation of Islam
Preached black nationalism
Believed African Americans should
separate themselves from whites and
form their own communities
Black Panthers
influenced by his ideas
Allied himself with Soviets
Planning nuclear attack
Bay of Pigs
Overthrown the dictator of
Cuba.
Castro’s forced killed almost all
of La Brigada’s members.
Failed attempt to overthrow Castro
35th president of the U.S.
Appointed a woman to his cabinet
Assassinated in 1963
Bay of Pigs
Attempt to overthrow Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ordered a Naval blockade to stop
missiles from being delivered.
Agreed to not invade China and
privately agreed to removing Turkish
missiles.
New Frontier
Increase aid to education, provide
health insurance to elderly, create Dep.
Of Urban Affairs, and help migrant
workers.
Vietnam
Increased military sent
Test Ban Treaty
Prohibited bomb testing on grounds,
atmosphere, and underwater
37th president of the U.S.
Vietnam War
Approved of secret bombing
campaign in Cambodia
Looked into ending military draft
Economy: Inflation
deficit spending
Equal Rights Amendment
Title IX
Prohibiting gender discrimination
in all federally funded schools
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
Roe vs. Wade
Prohibiting abortion of first 3
months
Neil Armstrong went to moon
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Banned the development of
systems designed to intercept
incoming missiles.
Watergate Scandal
40th president of the U.S.
Assassination attempt in first term
Reaganomics
support small business
lower taxes
deregulation
“Just Say NO to Drugs!”
Challenger blows up
Immigration Reform & Control Act
illegal to knowingly hire or
recruit illegal immigrants, required
employers to attest to their
employees' immigration status,
and granted amnesty to
approximately 3 million illegal
immigrants who entered the
United States prior to January 1,
1982, and had lived in the country
continuously.
New leader of Soviet Union
Believed S.U. had to reform its
economic system or it would
collapse
Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty
Destruction of nuclear
weapons
Reagan and Gorbachev
couldn’t agree on anything